Page 59 - Musings 2022

Feelings

Srijan Shashwat
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I cherished that feeling with childish innocence
With the plainness of a drop of water

Feeling it like raindrops

Uncontrolled but directed
Unnoticed and rejected

Like the sunlight that falls on your window
I don’t care whether you treat me with a smile

But I do care about seeing you every morning

Starting my day with yours
And hoping that for one moment of the day

The brightness on your face is because of me.

I am jealous of that flower
The one with which you clicked pictures yesterday

It seems they’re luckier than me

To have been in the same frame as you
I find your necklace vain and stupid

When you wear it, it screams to get attention
But it fails to overpower you

And yet you keep it close to your heart every day.

I am jealous of the shawl that you wear
It gets to keep you warm when it’s not

I am jealous of the diary that you keep
It gets to listen to your each and every thought

My heart was like the keys you play
That turn those notes into melodies

It feels that you left a little abruptly
What could’ve been a masterpiece.

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